The 2024 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has criticized the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, Godfred Dame, accusing him of acting more like a legal representative for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) than fulfilling his duties impartially.
Mahama emphasized the dual role of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, suggesting that Dame forgets his responsibility to ensure fairness.
“So I think that the A-G is also the Minister of Justice, he forgets that and thinks he is just the A-G. The Minister of Justice is supposed to ensure fairness. Anywhere else in this world, this case would have ended, he would never even have come to court,” he concluded.
In an interview with TV3 on Tuesday, July 30, following the Court of Appeal’s decision to acquit and discharge the accused in the ambulance procurement case, Mahama expressed his concerns about Dame’s credibility.
“I think that this Attorney-General has been discredited enough, anywhere in the world, with the things we have seen, the coaching of witnesses, and discussions with witnesses, this prosecution would have been struck out as malicious prosecution,” he said.
“I believe this prosecution is malicious. He is not as robust and energetic in pursuing other cases. Even as we speak, there is an ambulance case involving this present administration which is hugely larger than what he is prosecuting, and yet he has no interest in that.”
Mahama further accused Dame of being overly enthusiastic in pursuing political opponents.
“He is like a legal representative of the NPP party, over-enthusiastic in pursuing political opponents. I have said that when we come it will be the reverse. We will pursue accountability for the regime that has gone out but at the same time if any of our people are involved in the same things that have happened, we are prosecuting the previous government, and we will prosecute them too.”